HPE StoreOnce Scalability

Megha Meshram - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at BHEL

The tool is scalable. We use the tool to take backups for the whole company. Our company is big. Two administrators work on the solution.

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Nguyen_Nguyen - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Vice Director at Sunshine Solution

It's not scalable. It's the same as Data Domain. When upgrading, it has a limited number you can upgrade by. I recommend it for smaller companies.

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RG
Architect at ONGC

It is scalable for the model number we have acquired and it is still within our requirement. It is used at the enterprise level.

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Buyer's Guide
HPE StoreOnce
March 2024
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IM
CEO at TOPSYS DECOR SRL

In terms of scalability, it's satisfactory as we can expand the StoreOnce solution as needed. Our clients range from medium to large enterprises.

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EhabHosni - PeerSpot reviewer
HPE Solutions Manager at Summit Technology Solution

It is a scalable solution.

Though the product is scalable, there are a few limitations when it comes to certain models of the product. I have to go for HPE StoreOnce 3660 to be able to use 80 TB. If I need only 50 TB, meaning I need only low capacity to store data, then I need to choose a product that offers TB space meant for mid-size purposes. There is no model that provides a very small amount of capacity to function when it comes to HPE StoreOnce. If I go to purchase the license, then I need to pay a high price.

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Marc Schreurs - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Owner at SAN Gateway

The solution is definitely scalable, to the extent that we need it. For our purposes, it is definitely scalable enough. It's modular enough. You can add, with the 5260, 192 terabytes of raw capacity that you can extend one shelf at a time.

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Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

We have 400 users in our organization. We have only one administrator.

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GL
Unit head at Galaxy Office Automation Pvt. Ltd.

HPE StoreOnce is a scalable solution. HPE StoreOnce is a backup tool, and we have configured it on around 500 nodes for backup. We have plans to increase the solution’s usage over a period of time.

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AK
Head of Hosting & LAN Services at Lanka Communication Services (Pvt) Ltd.

You can't increase the hard disk size. We bought two units. We have one unit connected to another unit. We have got ample capacity so far, and there is no need to increase it.

Currently, we have around 15 users. We have bought it for the backup of our customers. When it comes to customers, there are hundreds of customers.

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Fernando Hortal - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO & Presales Manager at Pleiades Tecnologia

Small, medium and large organizations can take advantage of the tool’s capacity and performance.

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Mostafa Atrash - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Palpay

The scalability depends on the module. They have a lot of modules for the product and some are expandable while others come with a specific maximum capacity.

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Mohamed-Mousa - PeerSpot reviewer
IT manager at CNE

We have 300 HPE StoreOnce users. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

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Tahira Javed - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at METCO

The product is easy to scale. It is suitable for SMEs and large-scale enterprises as well.

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Domenico-Vizzoca - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery and Presales Manager at Harpaitalia italia

The scalability of HPE StoreOnce is excellent.

I am the only one using this solution in my organization. 

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it_user370284 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - System Engineering and Storage at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product did not scale well and had several issues where it bogged down under load. When used with a non HPE backup product, you really need to optimize the StoreOnce and your backup product to work well together.

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AS
Owner at Delectis Ghana Limited

It is a scalable solution. In my company, we work in an SME-type environment, which is not really large.

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it_user568140 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at Saudi Electricity Company

Scalability is fine.

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it_user285921 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager, Data Center & PC Operations at Shields Health Care Group

My impressions of scalability would be- I’ll never need to much add more space. They did a great deal with me, they doubled the space I asked for. I have enough room for years, but it also is very easily scalable. If I need to put in more trays I can.

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KG
Presales Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The platform is suitable for enterprise companies. I rate the scalability a seven out of ten.

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CP
Sr. Infra. Support Egineer / Tech .Consultant at CANAR OFFICE SYSTEMS

It is a very scalable solution for SMEs. It is possible to store additional data on the server using it. I rate its scalability as a ten out of ten.

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it_user284154 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Infrastructure & Service Management at Mansfield Oil Company

From a scalability perspective, some of the things that are intriguing to me are we have the ability to scale as the business needs and we can also contract, so we can be fluid. We can move when the business needs us to move, we can back up, we can make sure that we have all the pertinent data that the organization needs, and also have the ability to restore it quickly, and not tie up production systems and production storage while doing that.

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it_user242520 - PeerSpot reviewer
DB Admin / LAN Specialist at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

No issues with scalability. We purchased an additional 20TB shelf with the 4430 device (which came with a 20TB shelf included in the package we purchased).

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JuanBurbano - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Gensystems

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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it_user567942 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT & KPO Director at INglass S.p.A.

Scalability is very good.

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CK
Deputy General Manager at Lb

We have just reached capacity and we are now trying to get a new box.

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it_user362007 - PeerSpot reviewer
Hosting Contract Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're able to scale it out to other centers.

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it_user567933 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at Olympique Lyonnais Groupe

When we started, it was already quite large, about 200 TBs. So far, we haven’t had any need to scale up.

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it_user354912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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PS
Solutions Engineer at AmWINS Group, Inc.

StoreOnce scaling has been good. We've done a couple of field upgrades, we've had three different generations, actually we're down to two now, we retired one of the out already. But we've done a field upgrade of both of those which went really well. As far as the top end capabilities, we're not there. Both of our current generations still have headroom for growth.

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Mansoor Hafeez - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Information Technology Operations at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees

HPE StoreOnce is scalable in general, but it all depends on your requirement. If this solution was to be used in a large environment with many queries it would have difficulties.

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Sarvesh Rane - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at Unified Data-Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd

The tool is a scalable solution, and it often works with Data Protector, a software that initiates the backup process. I rate it a ten out of ten. 

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it_user382596 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional: Storage Administration at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

As long as the architecture was done correctly, I did not encounter any scalability issues. If an entry-level StoreOnce device is placed on a “soon to grow“ site, that is a planning mistake, not a scalability issue.

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ML
Manager Products & Solution Design at Data Edge Limited

Some models of HPE StoreOnce are scalable and some are not.

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EG
Senior Information Security Consultant at Future Telecom

If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data. That's about it, in terms of scalability.

There are five or six people in the IT team who were using it.

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it_user253341 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Enterprise Infrastructure and Architecture - Distributed Backup Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
it_user236520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Technician at a university with 501-1,000 employees

No issues when you need to scale up. It's as simple as 'chucking more disks' into the array when the space needs expanding.

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DZ
Director of Server Department at IT-Integrator

The is an easy solution to scale.

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it_user567960 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is something that we haven't really needed to utilise but that was one key factor when we chose it over the other solutions. We haven't had to do any scaling yet. We have in the range of 10 to 20 TBs.

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it_user469479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Program Manager at Microsoft

I think that what other products or other competitors are lacking is the use and the adaptation for other applications within Microsoft. If you wanted to backup SharePoint or SQL or clusters or other kind of features within Microsoft products with other backup companies or other partners they don't necessarily have that compatibility. If you have a large environment with a lot of diverse applications and systems and configurations, Data Protector definitely covers that and obviously StoreOnce is backing that.

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it_user229848 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Unix Administrator (Storage Archive Specialist) at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had any problems with the scalability of the B6200.

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it_user161661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is something you need to plan for ahead, the amount of TB you're looking to backup now and how much it would grow in the future. Depending on the outcome of your calculation you need to choose the model accordingly (the higher models allow for more scalability - read higher amount of TB that can be stored).

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it_user488799 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're currently using StoreOnce 2620 & 2700 on our 175 remote sites which are replicated on a Storeonce 4700 in our datacenter. The thing that I was afraid of when we chose StoreVirtual was the huge number of sites and therefore the number of StoreOnce units.

When it comes to scalability, expansion shelves are available for all models and HP provides a VSA version of StoreOnce, which is free of charge up to 1TB, so it is satisfying for us.

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it_user253311 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager with 501-1,000 employees

We recently added more and it went very well. It's easy to add to this product.

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Mostafa Atrash - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Palpay

catalyst integration can give you unmatchable performance.

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ZA
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is good. When we bought the current model, 6500, we bought around 200 TB of capacity, and we are using more than three TB of data. In terms of scalability, we can go from 200 TB to 400 TB to 600 TB, or more. They also provide cloud banks, but I don't think we will be requiring that amount of storage in the future. Because of deduplication, we don't have to add so much physical capacity. Even if I add 32 TB or whatever the minimum capacity is, it can still hold lots of terabytes of data.

We have 1,300 users and three admin who are maintaining the solution. We use the solution every day to run backups.

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it_user321825 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Technology Services at GMD S.A.

I have not yet encountered any scalability issues.

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CP
Sr. Infra. Support Egineer / Tech .Consultant at CANAR OFFICE SYSTEMS

There are several models of this device, and we have supplied our customers based on their requirements. Up to this point, they are still using the same models and we have not had to assist anyone with scaling this solution.

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it_user476382 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Leader - Storage at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We started small and it's grown exponentially since then. I'm not sure how much bigger we're going to get, but it is scaled greatly and performance hasn't decreased.

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it_user384924 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user362409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Analyst (Servers & Storage) at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've got four trays of discs, and I think we can add another X number of trays, so it's not going to be endlessly scalable, but it's going to be scalable up to X.

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it_user222456 - PeerSpot reviewer
IS technical architect at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

Came with two additional enclosures to put the drives in and you can add another one. We ordered the additional enclosure, it arrived, we racked it up, connected it into the VTL and ran a command to say ‘recognise this enclosure - expand to this enclosure’ and it just did it. You don’t lose anything because the data that is on the existing enclosures just spreads out across the new enclosure.

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Mir Mohammed Khalid Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at Intelligent Business Solutions

The solution is scalable. 

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SA
Data Center Implementation Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees

In terms of expanding, it depends on the type of license you have.

You have to purchase the license before you can add additional storage and space to expand.

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it_user476379 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability, we bought the device with one external expansion option, and I think it'll scale up to four. For the next five to seven years, it should scale out for all of our needs. It's very good, we're a mid-size enterprise, so it will more to meet our needs unless something disruptive happens.

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it_user285927 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a hospitality company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Scalability, that's one of the other features that I really like about it, especially in the virtual plans. All you do is if you run out of space, you add another VMDK and it just scales up seamlessly. You don't even have to reboot.

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AC
Project and Services Manager at Gensystems

With StoreOnce, there are many different options for increasing the storage. I believe it's a good solution if a company needs more space for a reasonable price — it's easy to scale this solution.

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it_user485910 - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineer Storage Equipment at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's not necessary to scale the smaller equipment, and we haven't had to scale the larger equipment as our customers aren't there yet.

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it_user363195 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Engineering Lead at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a good product to scale out because we can just buy more appliances and then we'll easily have more space.

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it_user469530 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Systems Specialist II at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's good. You can scale out if you have the money and you can add a lot to it.

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CP
Senior Systems Specialist and Pre-Sales at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

HPE StoreOnce has the highest scalability in the market. It is very good compared to products such as Dell Data Domain.

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it_user680328 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Director at Cp corp

The scalability is very high and you can get more space if you need to grow.

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it_user364608 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at Mediahuis

I just say I need X terabytes and I'm done. At the moment, we have around 150TB and we expect to grow because we're going more and more to video. We have four newspapers and an online presence with videos embedded in our stories.

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it_user229968 - PeerSpot reviewer
Coördinator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues with the systems size from VSA (Virtual appliance) to a four couplet system.

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it_user368208 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're not using anywhere close to what we have. We've designed it to allow for our five-year growth. We're not there yet.

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it_user231918 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technical Architect at a university with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user253347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, IT and Operations at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It was not able to scale for us; we had to buy another solution (X9000) to store copies.

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SV
Technical Specialist at Pouyan Pardazesh Tehran Co

The product can scale if you need it to.

We have 50 or 60 clients using the product.

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it_user313050 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Enterprise Computing at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

VMware changed something when they went to 6, even Comvault was a week behind, but while Comvault provided a solution, HP just released their updates a week or two ago in the new version – we now have to go to DP9.

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it_user278118 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
it_user248508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Operations Specialist - Server at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user157584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner with 51-200 employees

No. This is an entry level model, and this one cannot be scaled.

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it_user153072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user330453 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Infrastructure Analyst (Server / Datacentre Team) with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability can become an issue once you grow past the capacity of a single cluster pair. This will mean additional controllers and licensing and can be fairly costly.

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it_user324942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network admin/security at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user236529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise IT Infrastructure - Team Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues scaling the product.

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it_user231921 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager, Compute & Storage at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user567693 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sysadmin at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We did some calculations on, when it says in the sales sheet that we got this number of terabytes, but the system itself uses some terabytes. So what we ended up with was having 10 or 11 terabytes less than HP actually said that it would contain. We had a lot of discussion about that with our distributors and sales persons. That's just how it is.

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it_user229386 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We have had to expand the capacity and there were no issues.

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it_user156132 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

768 TB raw (512 TB useable). Good enough for enterprise wide backup solutions.

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it_user236532 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist-System Administrator at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

We're unable to expand our storage capabilities smoothly.

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it_user368136 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We haven't had scalability issues. Again, we're able to store more data in a smaller space.

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Buyer's Guide
HPE StoreOnce
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about HPE StoreOnce. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.